This question ties into something I've wondered for a while: Is there a minimum preferred bandwidth rate for relays? I had done some rough calculations a while ago that a $5 VPS from something like Digitalocean could provide approximately 2MiB/s while not exceeding the allotted bandwidth.At that speed, would it be worth adding additional relays?
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, July 19, 2019 3:40 AM, Stephen Mollett molletts@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
On 19/07/2019 00:06, Keifer Bly wrote:
...as long as the relay generates a maximum of 4.9 GB per month...
A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation gives about 16kbit/sec if you spread that bandwidth evenly over the whole month. The only way you could do it would be to have a relay that hibernates for the majority of the month, "concentrating" that 4.9GB into a day or so then doing nothing until the next billing period.
Whether that would really help the network is another matter - I don't know how "intermittent" nodes are handled.
Even running a bridge would be challenging when the bandwidth is that limited.
(You might be able to game the system by having multiple VPSes and moving the node around between them, using a VPN to bring it out at the same IP address every time, but that opens a whole new can of worms which I don't even want to think about.)
Stephen
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